Natural History Wanderings

The  New York Times reports on Ukraine’s abundant mushroom season

Hunting for mushrooms deep in the forest is the ideal socially distanced pastime.

This fall, Ukrainians have been driving their cars down country roads, getting out and walking deep into the forest for the world’s most socially distanced pastime: mushroom hunting.

By serendipity, the country had a bumper crop of mushrooms in a year when gathering them remains one of the few activities for those wanting to get out of the house while avoiding other people.

Read article at  ‘I Have Never Seen so Many Toadstools.’ A Bumper Crop of Mushrooms in Ukraine – The New York Times